It was for me people confirming my own findings.
Before that it was people trying to throw labels at me that didn't fit. From having the folks on my side about no medication it didn't add up to anything harmful.
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When you were diagnosed with your mental health disorder, what kind of impact did it have on your life?
more stigma and receiving special treatment from people
What changed?​
in practice, nothing terribly important.
Did this bring better self awareness about yourself,
eventually it has
parts of me that i always saw were there and different from other people somehow, i finally knew that these were caused by a disorder.. or not that they were caused, but the disorder explained their being there. this was a somewhat pointless revelation, as it just showed me what i already know, but in a different way.
one somewhat helpful result of having a diagnosis was that, for all the time before that i had been trying to hide myself and mold my way into the way other people did things, which i could do fairly well, but it always brought me a low self esteem because i couldn't do stuff as easily or as well or the others and that frustrated me. and then i finally realized fuck their way, i just worked in a different way and i should play off that instead of trying to conform to my standards.
i still catch myself judging me against their stuff sometimes, but it's gotten better i guess.
and consequently how you live your life?
not really. what is there that i could change that would make this any better.
I've recently been having deep discussions about my mentality with my mental health counselor, and she's determined I may have a personality disorder (of what kind is still to be determined). When you were diagnosed with your mental health disorder, what kind of impact did it have on your life? What changed? Did this bring better self awareness about yourself, and consequently how you live your life?
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